Kabo is a dog food delivery business that offers a unique and hyper-personalized subscription eCommerce experience to 4000+ pet owners.

How Kabo Increased AOV by 25% to Take Their Business Up, Pup, and Away!

By adopting a headless eCommerce stack with Chargebee and constantly experimenting with its subscription offerings, Kabo provides the best experience to every individual pet owner it serves.

What Kabo looked for

Ability to customize subscription offerings based on individual preferences

Easy implementation of add-ons and complementary purchases

Insights on customer journeys to present highly contextualized products

What Chargebee offered

Robust APIs that connect with Kabo’s front-end application layer

Flexible subscription add-ons to simplify upsells for complementary products

In-depth subscription analytics and metrics to optimize their user engagement & retention workflows

See how Chargebee is a trusted partner in 4500+ growth stories

From sending Instagram DMs to dog owners to serving 4000+ conscious pet parents every day, Kabo’s founders Vijay and Vino Jeyapalan have truly started the movement for better, more purposeful pet nutrition. Today Kabo’s fresh dog food business has managed to build a solid presence in Canada, launching new product lines (like the aptly named Monch Bars), and adding more regions to its distribution network.


The ingenuity of Kabo’s business is not in the novelty of the idea (pet food subscriptions existed before) but in the thoughtfulness of its approach. Instead of a one-size-fits-all solution, Kabo decided to build bespoke subscription plans for every customer and leverage first-party data to design the best subscriptions for them.



Making Scale and Agility Paw-sible


To complement its build-your-own-box model, Kabo needed a subscription and billing tool that operated seamlessly with, yet independent of, their native and third-party tools. They wanted a tool that could:


  • Initiate subscriptions and seamlessly integrate with third-party or in-house tools

  • Track subscription changes and make add-ons easy

  • Validate applied coupons and discounts

  • Enable out-of-the-box revenue recovery, dunning, and analytics

  • Customize subscription offerings based on individual preferences


“While evaluating out-of-the-box eCommerce platforms like Shopify with Recharge and other plug-ins, we quickly realized that the degree of complexity involved in creating individual meal plans required us to create our custom application. So we adopted a headless stack with complete control on the frontend while Chargebee’s seamless API integration took care of the subscription layer at the backend," said Jon Ristovski, the CTO of Kabo.





Subscriptions Platform Un-Leashed


To give their customers complete control over their purchase and product experience, Kabo implemented the first-principles approach straight from the start. They focused on their core competencies - building customized, nutritious pet food subscription boxes while outsourcing the technical weightlifting of their subscriptions backend to Chargebee. They ensured their product roadmap stayed dynamic by taking away the hassle of subscription maintenance and uptime besides providing customers the flexibility to update their existing subscription plans.


A host of out-of-the-box solutions from Chargebee also helped Kabo build additional platform competencies as they scaled without reinventing their product flywheel. Here’s how Chargebee transformed Kabo’s subscription journey:


  • Offering a robust product catalog that can handle a wide range of subscription plan variations without complicating user journeys, enabling Kabo to build custom plans based on frequency and SKUs

  • Offering flexible subscription add-ons to simplify upsells for complementary products

  • Validating coupon codes before checkout to minimize revenue and opportunity loss

  • Automatically syncing data across tools and systems to maintain data integrity and minimize human errors in the process

  • Providing deep subscription analytics and metrics to understand customer journeys and optimize their retention and engagement flow

  • Putting revenue recovery on autopilot with an out-of-the-box dunning and smart payment retry offering


The Payoff


  • Seamless subscription add-ons unlocked Kabo’s upsell potential, providing customers with more choices, and ultimately boosted the Average Order Value (AOV) for recurring customers from $80 to $100 within a year

  • Aided Kabo’s focus on customer-centricity by providing seamless, non-intrusive subscription management and revenue recovery, helping them register a competition-toppling NPS score of 82

  • Saved thousands of hours, dollars, and significant developer effort through robust API integrations and out-of-the-box subscription capabilities like dunning, dashboarding, and more


As a customer-obsessed brand, hyper-customized user experiences, granular insight into user engagement, and the freedom to experiment swiftly are critical to Kabo’s growth. A strong subscription management stack provides them the foundation to build modularity as they grow. By bullet-proofing their subscription management, Kabo also ensures timely shipping and delivery, so customers can truly enjoy a mlem-worthy experience.

Finance

Chargebee, Profitwell, Xero, PayPal, Stripe

Marketing

Klaviyo

Operations

Slack

On-page analytics

Hotjar

Our backend focuses on translating user information and how the business utilizes that data to reach more people, improving delivery efficiency, and presenting highly contextualized products suitable for the individual dog’s needs. Chargebee's APIs play a pivotal role in making this possible.
Vino JeyapalanCo-founder and CEO, Kabo